Federal Bureaucratic Failure
The federal government spends almost $4 trillion a year. It has hundreds of agencies and runs more than 2,300 subsidy programs. It employs 2.1 million civilian workers, 1.4 million uniformed military personnel, and 560,000 postal workers. It is a huge organization.
It also fails a lot and is increasingly distrusted. One new Gallup poll finds that three‐quarters of Americans think that government corruption is widespread, while another shows that half of Americans believe that the federal government is a threat to our freedom.
A new essay, “Bureaucratic Failure in the Federal Government,” at DownsizingGovernment.org examines structural features of the executive branch that cause federal failure and help to engender such a dim view from the public.
